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of the enemy. With His own blood He has signed the eman-
cipation papers of the race.
"Jesus does not desire those who have been purchased at
such a cost to become the sport of the enemy's temptations.
He does not desire us to be overcome and perish. He who
curbed the lions in their den, and walked with His faithful
witnesses amid the fiery flames, is just as ready to work in
our behalf, to subdue every evil in our nature. To-day He is
standing at the altar of mercy, presenting before God the
prayers of those who desire His help. He turns no weeping,
contrite one away. Freely will He pardon all who come to
Him for forgiveness and restoration."
— Id., pp. 89, 90.
7.
"The• Lord Jesus is making experiments on human
hearts through the exhibition of His mercy and abundant
grace. He is effecting transformations so amazing that
Satan with all his triumphant boasting, with all his confeder-
acy of evil united against God and the laws of His govern-
ment, stands viewing them as a fortress impregnable to his
sophistries and delusions. They are to him an incompre-
hensible mystery. The angels of God, seraphim and cherubim,
the powers commissioned to cooperate with human agencies,
look on with astonishment and joy, that fallen men, once
children of wrath, are through the training of Christ develop-
ing characters after the divine similitude, to be sons and
daughters of God, to act an important part in the occupations
and pleasures of heaven."—
Mrs. E. G. White, in "General
Conference Bulletin," 1893, p. 409.
8.
"Our Redeemer has opened the way, so that the most
sinful, the most needy, the most oppressed and despised, may
find access to the Father."—"The
Desire of Ages," p. 113.
9.
Victory is, not received• "by works of righteousness
which we have done," but is wholly the gift of God, received
by faith. Till we believe that God will give us the victory
personally, we can never receive it. There can be no victory
without faith.
"Only surrendered persons are victorious; but not all sur-
rendered persons are victorious. 'Surrender' means turning
ourselves wholly, utterly over to God, to let Him do anything
and everything that He pleases with us. To be victorious is to
have Christ supreme in our life; and of course He can not be
supreme there while we continue to hold on to anything our-
selves. Therefore it is that so much emphasis is properly
put upon the 'surrendered' life, the 'yielded' life. But some
make the mistake of thinking that this surrender, this yield-
ing, is all there is to it; and they find that they are not
victorious, and wonder why. The answer is simple: surrender
or yielding is only our part; the victory is Christ's part; and
until we
believe
that He
is
doing His part in us in perfect